A wave of new research is forcing paleontologists to reconsider a basic question about life on Earth: when did the first mass ...

Waves of extinction have ripped through life on Earth over and over again during its long history. The non-avian dinosaurs were the last to feel the burn, 66 million years ago, but there have been ...

A quarter of a billion years ago, long before dinosaurs or mammals evolved, the predator Dinogorgon, whose skull is shown here, hunted floodplains in the heart of today's South Africa. In less than a ...

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A lost cache of 250-million-year-old fossils from Australia has rewritten part of the story of life after Earth’s worst mass extinction. Instead of a single marine amphibian species, researchers ...

Turtles with shell-cracking jaws were far more likely to survive extinction due to their ability to be sustained on a restricted diet.

A real T. rex is coming to the Nutmeg State in an event where visitors can learn how the apex predator met its own demise. The Bruce Museum in Greenwich will be hosting the "Six Extinctions" exhibit ...